It was 20 years ago today...

Back in 1995 I was working for Logica UK, and they started allowing staff to have webspace. I took up their offer, and decided to start a review site, to learn about the web (it was new in those days!), and to keep an online review journal. I fiddled about with the pages for a while, adding a few reviews, then, on 23 May 1996, I started date-stamping them.

When I moved to the University of York in 2002, I took my website with me, and it continued to grow. Being an academic, I also use it to keep a respository of my publications; there are about 240 of those now.

What does the past look like? The oldest backup I can find is from October 1999 (on a CD: remember them?), when my front page looked like:

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This is an eclectic collection of stuff that I might want to remember, but doesn't fit well into my more formal website. That is where I collect my sf and technical reviews, publications, and other less ephemeral things. Also see my Google+ page for bits and bobs.